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FKIE_CVE-2026-90243

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-17 17:17 - Updated: 2026-09-18 18:17

Severity

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down copied context entry copied_context_tear_down() zeroes the 128-bit context entry with context_clear_entry() while the Present bit is still set, and only then issues the context-cache and IOTLB invalidations. This leaves a window in which hardware can fetch a torn entry, with some fields already zeroed while Present is still set, leading to unpredictable behaviour or spurious faults. While x86 provides strong write ordering, the compiler may reorder the writes to the two 64-bit halves of the entry, and the hardware fetch is not guaranteed to be atomic with respect to multiple CPU writes. There is no cacheline flush before the invalidation either, so on an IOMMU without coherent access to the context table the zeroed entry may not be visible to hardware at the point the invalidation is submitted. Apply the same ownership handshake described in the VT-d spec, Section 6.5.3.3 ("Guidance to Software for Invalidations"): clear only the Present bit, flush it out to the IOMMU, perform the invalidations, and only then zero the remainder of the entry.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c88cfedc7768b1ae2dc7ddc71547ae9a1aaff7d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b822d18c33af9d1e16a8e5e6aa6e656987b09de
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97750a8dce79c1a9b2b2d2a020b61b800141996c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f532c57985b1a7d6b7e37e05506b46d413e5cca4

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          "scope": "CHANGED",
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CVE-2026-90243 (GCVE-0-2026-90243)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:07 – Updated: 2026-09-18 17:54

Title

iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down copied context entry

Summary

Severity

8.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97750a8dce79c1a9b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c88cfedc7768b1ae…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b822d18c33af9d1e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f532c57985b1a7d6b…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: c7191984e5aade540f1a3845a116537c89572655 , < 97750a8dce79c1a9b2b2d2a020b61b800141996c (git) Affected: c7191984e5aade540f1a3845a116537c89572655 , < 3c88cfedc7768b1ae2dc7ddc71547ae9a1aaff7d (git) Affected: c7191984e5aade540f1a3845a116537c89572655 , < 6b822d18c33af9d1e16a8e5e6aa6e656987b09de (git) Affected: c7191984e5aade540f1a3845a116537c89572655 , < f532c57985b1a7d6b7e37e05506b46d413e5cca4 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.110 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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